Marieke is a WASH expert with over 18 years of experience in the sector. She has a special interest in small town WASH, participatory strategic planning processes and evidence-based decision making in WASH.
After graduating as an Irrigation and Water Engineer from Wageningen University, Marieke joined IRC as a Junior Professional Officer (JPO) in 2003. As JPO she was stationed with NGO Forum (Bangladesh) and with TREND Group (Ghana). In 2006, she joined the IRC team in the Netherlands.
Marieke has led and participated in action-research studies in Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe on issues like monitoring sustainable WASH service provision, small town water supply, Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM), multiple-use water services, and cost recovery and financing.
Marieke has experience in working closely with ministries (e.g. the Ministry of Water Resources, Irrigation and electricity in Ethiopia) and government agencies (e.g. Community Water and Sanitation Agency in Ghana) in identifying and addressing sector challenges. She has supported knowledge management and sector learning processes in various contexts and countries (e.g. support to the establishment and development of Learning Alliance Platforms in Ghana and Ethiopia and the Resource Centre Network Ghana).
Marieke is supporting the Accountability and Adaptation team, responsible for monitoring, with special emphasis on monitoring service level and financial indicators. She is also supporting various action research projects, with special focus on monitoring and sustainability issues. She is leading the development of a District WASH Master Planning Facility.
National public development banks are underused and that they have the potential to raise finance for achieving both the SDG 6 and the water-related... Read more...
Comparing water utilities in Kenya, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and the United States reveals a gap between the full costs of service delivery and budgets of... Read more...
The process, benefits, challenges, and learnings of water safety planning (WSP) in an Ethiopian district, using a mixed method approach and a six-... Read more...
This document chronicles the establishment of water safety planning teams in South Ari Woreda and four pilot kebeles within the woreda, the... Read more...
Max Wengawenga, Director of Planning in the Ministry of Water and Sanitation in Malawi, explains why it's useful to create a costed finance strategy... Read more...
The leveraging experience has opened new windows of opportunity for better collaboration and partnerships between NGOs and government, and may... Read more...
This Research Review provides an overview of subsidy targeting strategies and the conditions under which they have proven successful or not, drawing... Read more...
This costing and financing study report provides insight into all the necessary life-cycle costs of achieving the 2030 vision and ensuring... Read more...
Using the life-cycle cost approach (LCCA) this study showed the budget gaps for the sustainability of water services. Read more...
Spreading the cost of faecal waste removal over a series of monthly payments could make it more affordable for poor households and help kick start... Read more...
The global costs of achieving universal basic WASH by the year 2030 are achievable under current overall sector spending but sustained universal... Read more...
This document presents the case of the NGO Gram Vikas in Odisha, that has been developing and supporting community-managed rural water supplies... Read more...
This note presents the approach of the NGO, Vasudha Vikas Sansthan, in Madhya Pradesh in partnership with the State's Public Health Engineering... Read more...
This case study presents the case of the World Bank assisted Jal Nirmal Project in Karnataka. Read more...
In this document we capture the inputs that contributed in improving water supply to households and an assessment of the costs incurred in this... Read more...
This document captures the inputs that contributed to improving water supply to households and an assessment of cost by the Public Health and... Read more...
The diversion of focus from water towards sanitation, comes at the cost of cutting down allocations in rural water or 'adjusting' funds from one... Read more...
This book is an introduction to the theory of water governance and its practical application especially in The Netherlands. Read more...